Monthly Archives: May 2010
Barbecue Side Dishes
Invited to a Memorial Day Barbecue and aren’t sure what you want to bring? I did a little searching around the internets and found a great article about such side dishes at epicurious. I want to make all of them. … Continue reading
Filed under recipes
Gulf Oil Spill Response Protest
Today I’m reprinting an invitation I received: Join us on SUNDAY, MAY 30th at 1 PM in Jackson Square, New Orleans, to demand the Federal Government and BP devote all possible available resources to stopping the continued outpouring of crude … Continue reading
Filed under civics
Plaquemines Parish Seafood Fest
This weekend the Plaquemines Parish Seafood Festival is under way. Obviously the tone of this year’s festival will probably be a little heavy, as the viability of Gulf seafood is seriously in question. I can hardly believe those words as … Continue reading
Filed under festivals, food, kid-friendly
Royal Street Stroll
The New Orleans Wine and Food Experience continues today. The signature event of the “experience” is the Royal Street Stroll, which takes place this evening from 5:30-8:30 in the 200-900 blocks of Royal Street. If you’ve put off getting tickets … Continue reading
Filed under festivals, food, new orleans cuisine, wine
New Orleans Wine and Food Experience
The annual New Orleans Wine and Food Experience gets under way today.–You know, the past ten years of my life could be categorized as a “New Orleans wine and food experience.”–Anyway, the “experience” is a non-profit festival in its nineteenth … Continue reading
Gazpacho at the Farmer’s Market
It is officially hot as a mutha. And, it looks like the familiar, summertime, afternoon monsoon rain pattern is about to start up this week. Luckily, the Tuesday Crescent City Farmer’s Market packs it in by 1, a good hour … Continue reading
Frank’s Place at NOCCA
We all know how horribly wrong Hollywood usually gets New Orleans. K-Ville, anyone? The Big Easy? And then we get Treme, with its nearly obsessive attention to detail, that says to me, “we will get New Orleans right or die trying, … Continue reading
